Tin cups filled with wildflowers are now gracing the tables at Chick-fill-A at 575 Garden of the Gods Road. Employees are wearing Western bandanas. In front of the restaurant stands a partially burned welcome sign and a Model A Ford truck. There will be Indian dancers and cowhands galore, plus ranch animals.
It?s a fund-raising week for the Flying W Ranch, which burned to the ground in the Waldo Canyon fire this summer.
?We were just heartsick about the situation and want to bring the community together to support them,? said Jessica Norsky, restaurant marketing director. She met Aaron Winter,? Flying W Ranch Foundation executive director, at a luncheon recently, and they hatched the idea of ?bringing a little bit of the ranch to the community.?
Donations will be used to pay to reseed the famous working cattle ranch that since 1953 had entertained locals and tourists with chuckwagon dinners and entertainment.
?We are working to keep soil from washing into Mountain Shadows,? Winter notes. The land was incinerated three inches deep into the soil. He said that the foundation is concentrating on the land for now.
??Our hope is to someday rebuild the ranch.?
The Flying W Foundation has applied to become a non-profit organization, but the process is not complete yet.
A bag of seed to cover one acre costs $250. ?We?ve got 1,800 acres, so we are looking at $500,000 in the next couple of years,? Winter said. The foundation also hopes to purchase safety equipment such as hard hats for volunteers, as well as buckets, rakes and shovels and other equipment.
Every night this week from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m., there will be Indian dancing and other activities with a decidedly nostalgic twist.
The blacksmith shop on the ranch burned down, but the horseshoes survived. So on Tuesday, kids will have the opportunity to decorate those horseshoes and take them home.
On Wednesday, there will be another horsehoe event from 9? a.m. to 10:30 a.m. Then from 5 p.m. to 8 p.m. Wednesday, ranch hands will brand pieces of wood with the Flying W logo and give them to diners.
Thursday?s festivities will include an art event. Kids will get to color and keep pages from the ranch coloring books.
On Friday, the Flying W Wranglers will perform at 5 p.m. and 6:30 p.m.
Saturday some of the? ranch animals will be on hand ? or hoof, as the case may be. Lily the goat will be there, as will several horses.?? ?
During the week, the Flying W cookbook will be available? for cooks to copy recipes from.
Franchise operator Randy Watson is pledging 15 percent of meal receipts to the cause.
Donations from the public will also be accepted. For more information about the events visit www.cfarestaurant.com/gardenofthegods/home.
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Source: http://www.gazette.com/news/animals-146291-ranch-garden.html
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